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Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
Benjamin Robbins Curtis	A.B.	Associate Justice	1829
Samuel Treat	B.A.	Judge	1837
Nathan Webb	A.B.	Judge	1846
Addison Brown	A.B.	Judge	1852
William Gardner Choate	A.B.	Judge	1852
Francis Cabot Lowell	A.B.	Judge	1876
John Kelvey Richards	A.B.	Judge	1877
Walter Irving McCoy	A.B.	Chief Justice	1882
Edward Terry Sanford	B.A.	Associate Justice	1885
George Albert Carpenter	B.A.	Judge	1888
John Percy Nields	A.B.	Judge	1889
Francis Gordon Caffey	A.B.	Judge	1891
James Arnold Lowell	A.B.	Judge	1891
Fredrick William Dallinger	A.M.	Judge	1894
John Weld Peck	A.B.	Judge	1896
William Caldwell Coleman	A.B.	Judge	1905
Joseph Lamb Bodine	LL.B.	Justice	1908
Francis Biddle	B.A.	Judge	1909
William Clark	B.A.	Judge	1911
Joseph Edward Lumbard	A.B.	Judge	1922
Mendon Morrill		Judge	1923
Peter Woodbury	B.S.	Judge	1924
Bailey Aldrich	A.B.	Judge	1928
Philip Nichols Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1929
John Helm Pratt	A.B.	Judge	1930
Charles Merton Merrill	LL.B.	Justice	1931
William Joseph Brennan Jr.	LL.B.	Justice	1931
Orville Edwin Langley	B.S.	Judge	1932
George Clifton Edwards Jr.	M.A.	Judge	1934
George Clifton Edwards Jr.	M.A.	Justice	1934
Oscar Hirsh Davis	A.B.	Judge	1934
Gerald Joseph Weber	A.B.	Judge	1936
Charles E. Stewart Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1938
Morris Edward Lasker	B.A.	Judge	1938
Malcolm Richard Wilkey	A.B.	Judge	1940
Eugene Hoffman Nickerson	B.A.	Judge	1941
Myron L. Gordon	LL.B.	Justice	1942
Louis Heilprin Pollak	B.A.	Judge	1943
James Lowell Oakes	A.B.	Judge	1945
George Neves Leighton	LL.B.	Justice	1946
Walter Evan Black Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1947
Richard J. Cardamone	B.A.	Judge	1948
Richard J. Cardamone	B.A.	Justice	1948
Thomas Morrow Reavley	J.D.	Justice	1948
Walter Jay Skinner	A.B.	Judge	1948
Edmund V. Ludwig	A.B.	Judge	1949
Thomas Ambrose Masterson	B.A.	Judge	1949
William Hubbs Rehnquist	M.A.	Chief Justice	1949
Ralph Francis Scalera	A.B.	Judge	1952
Thomas Poole Griesa	A.B.	Judge	1952
Alfred V. Covello	A.B.	Judge	1954
Bruce Marshall Selya	A.B.	Judge	1955
John Trice Nixon	A.B.	Judge	1955
Paul Edward Plunkett	B.A.	Judge	1957
William D. Hutchinson	J.D.	Justice	1957
Albert Martin Rosenblatt		Associate Judge	1960
Michael Boudin	B.A.	Judge	1961
Stuart Robert Pollak	with distinction	Presiding Justice	1962
William G. Young	A.B.	Judge	1962
Ferdinand Francis Fernandez	LL.M.	Judge	1963
Roger Leland Wollman	LL.M.	Justice	1964
David Hackett Souter	LL.B.	Justice	1966
Wayne R. Andersen	B.A.	Judge	1967
Roderick R. McKelvie	B.A.	Judge	1968
David Brock Hornby	J.D.	Justice	1969
Michael Adrian Ponsor	B.A.	Judge	1969
William Curtis Bryson	A.B.	Judge	1969
Ellen Frances Gesmer	summa cum laude	Associate Justice	1971
John P. Doyle	Economics	Judge	1971
Michael Larned Stern		Judge	1971
David F. Levi	A.B.	Judge	1972
Keith P. Ellison	B.A.	Judge	1972
Terry Byron O'Rourke		Judge	1972
Susan Laura Carney	A.B.	Judge	1973
Sven Erik Holmes	B.A.	Judge	1973
Curtis Edward Andrew Karnow	Philosophy, cum laude	Judge	1974
Jeremy D. Fogel	J.D.	Judge	1974
William Francis Kuntz II	M.A.	Judge	1974
Frederick J. Martone	LL.M.	Justice	1975
Lorenzo R. Balderrama	English Literature, cum laude	Judge	1975
Timothy Seymour Black	A.B.	Judge	1975
Marla Jo Miller		Associate Justice	1976
Robert A. Katzmann	A.M.	Judge	1976
Jose I. Sandoval		Judge	1978
Monica Bachner		Judge	1978
Beth Labson Freeman	J.D.	Judge	1979
Harry Mark Dorfman		Judge	1979
James Kelleher Bredar	B.A.	Judge	1979
Maurice Abraham Leiter		Judge	1979
Dale S. Fischer	J.D.	Judge	1980
Geoffrey William Crawford	J.D.	Justice	1980
John A. Mendez	J.D.	Judge	1980
Analisa Nadine Torres	A.B.	Judge	1981
Michael Walter Fitzgerald	A.B.	Judge	1981
Pamela Mante Parker		Judge	1982
Colin Philip Leis		Judge	1983
Joni Takayo Hiramoto	magna cum laude	Judge	1983
Xavier Rodriguez	B.A.	Judge	1983
Cynthia Aaron	cum-laude	Associate Justice	1984
Elaine Lu		Judge	1984
Gail Ruderman Feuer		Associate Justice	1984
James Donato	A.M.	Judge	1984
Landya B. McCafferty	A.B.	Judge	1984
Christy Virginia Keeny		Judge	1985
Evelio M. Grillo		Judge	1985
Fernando Manzano Olguin	B.A.	Judge	1985
Gregory E Maggs	AB	Judge	1985
Jose Rolando Olvera Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1985
Luis A. Lavin		Associate Justice	1985
Pamela Lynn Smith-Steward		Judge	1985
Peter Michael Kelly	History, cum laude	Justice	1985
Joseph Anthony Brandolino		Judge	1986
Steven Andrew Ellis	History	Judge	1986
Cormac J. Carney	J.D.	Judge	1987
Gregory Arthur Dohi	Government, magna cum laude	Judge	1987
Derrick Kahala Watson	A.B.	Judge	1988
Joginder Singh Dhillon		Judge	1988
Joseph Mark Lipner	magna cum laude	Judge	1988
William Walter Mercer	M.P.A.	Judge	1988
Yvonne Esperanza Campos		Judge	1988
George Carol Hanks Jr.	J.D.	U.S. Magistrate Judge	1989
John Zihun Lee	A.B.	Judge	1989
Laura Ann Seigle		Judge	1989
Michael Paul Linfield	magna cum laude	Judge	1989
S. Robert Tice-Raskin		Judge	1989
David S. Jones	cum laude	U.S. Bankruptcy Judge	1990
Linda Harris Colfax		Judge	1990
Lucy Haeran Koh	B.A.	Judge	1990
Nancy Anne Ramirez		Judge	1990
Danny Yeh Chou		Judge	1991
Darrell Shaun Mavis		Judge	1991
Geoffrey Matthew Howard		Judge	1991
Gregory John Weingart	magna cum laude	Judge	1991
Rachel Cano		Judge	1991
Andrew Alan Steckler		Judge	1992
Helena R. Gweon		Judge	1992
Ketanji Brown Jackson	B.A.	Associate Justice	1992
Nhan T. Vu		Judge	1992
Tracie Lynne Brown	magna cum laude	Associate Justice	1992
Julie Rikelman	A.B.	Judge	1993
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar	Political Psychology and Government, magna cum laude	Associate Justice	1993
Jesse Matthew Furman	B.A.	Judge	1994
Jeannette Anne Vargas	A.B.	Judge	1995
Michael Etan Farbiarz	A.B.	Judge	1995
Beatriz Maria Garcia Gordon		Judge	1996
Eric David Miller	A.B.	Judge	1996
James P. Arguelles		Judge	1996
Leondra Reid Kruger	with high honors	Associate Justice	1997
Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong	A.B.	Judge	1997
Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong	B.A. Social Science, concentration: History & Science	Judge	1997
Nancy Lee Maldonado	A.B.	Judge	1997
Edward Albert Torpoco		Judge	1998
Joshua Paul Groban	cum laude	Associate Justice	1998
Sanket Jayshukh Bulsara	A.B.	Judge	1998
Nathan Ray Scott		Judge	1999
Georgia Nick Alexakis	A.B.	Judge	2000
Jerome A. Holmes	M.P.A.	Judge	2000
Kim Le Nguyen		Judge	2000
Rita Faye Lin	B.A.	Judge	2000
Rita Faye Lin		Judge	2000
Donald Fitzgerald Gaffney		Judge	2001
Monica Ramirez Almadani	A.B.	Judge	2001
Rachel Peter Kovner	A.B.	Judge	2001
Amanda M. Knapp		U.S. Magistrate Judge	2002
Jessica Adriana Uzcategui		Judge	2002
Antonio Miguel Pozos	A.B.	Judge	2004
Rachel Sarah Bloomekatz	A.B.	Judge	2004
Julia Eleanor Kobick	A.B.	Judge	2005
Lindsey Ann Freeman	B.A.	Judge	2005
April L. Farris	cum laude	Justice	2009
A F. Burgess Jr.		Judge	–
Alan B. Handler		Justice	–
Alan C. Sundberg		Justice	–
Alan R. Schwartz		Judge	–
Albert W. Barney Jr.		Justice	–
Alberto R. Gonzales		Justice	–
Alexandra Robert Gordon		Judge	–
Alfred G. Schroeder		Justice	–
Alfred Hahn Joslin		Justice	–
Alfred V. Covello		Justice	–
Allyn Larabee Brown		Justice	–
Amber S. Rosen		Judge	–
Amos Noyes Blandin Jr.		Justice	–
Angel A. Cortiñas		Judge	–
Antoinette L. Dupont		Judge	–
Arthur Dolan		Justice	–
Arthur Easterbrook Whittemore		Justice	–
Arthur F. Ells		Judge	–
Arthur H. Healey		Justice	–
Augustus T. Seymour		Justice	–
Barbara A. Lenk		Justice	–
Bert Kobayashi		Justice	–
Bertram Teruo Kanbara		Judge	–
Bob Pemberton		Justice	–
Bruce Ditmas Bromley		Judge	–
Carroll A. Charles		Judge	–
Carroll T. Bond		Justice	–
Champ Lyons		Justice	–
Charles A. Carroll		Judge	–
Charles Ballard Zimmerman		Justice	–
Charles Bradley		Justice	–
Charles House		Justice	–
Charles Matteson		Justice	–
Charles Robert Wolle		Justice	–
Charles Stearns		Justice	–
Chris Altenbeend		Judge	–
Chris W. Altenbernd		Judge	–
Christine Van Aken		Judge	–
Christopher Warner Dybwad		Judge	–
Clarence Clifton Young		Justice	–
Clarence R. Magney		Justice	–
Craig David Karlan		Judge	–
Craig H. Nakamura		Judge	–
D Price Marshall Jr.		Judge	–
Daniel Joseph O'Hern		Justice	–
Daniel Marc Taubman		Judge	–
David Brock Hornby		Judge	–
David Jay Richman		Judge	–
David L. Lillehaug		Justice	–
David M. Borden		Justice	–
David M. Borden		Judge	–
Donald L. Burnett Jr.		Judge	–
Donald R. Wright		Chief Justice	–
Donald W. Webber		Justice	–
Edith W. Fine		Justice	–
Edward Augustine Counihan Jr.		Justice	–
Edward F. Merrill		Judge	–
Edward John Lampron		Justice	–
Edward M. Mansfield		Justice	–
Edward S. Godfrey		Justice	–
Edward W. Najam Jr.		Judge	–
Elizabeth W. Pine		Judge	–
Emmert L. Wingert		Justice	–
Ernest W. Gibson III		Justice	–
F Henri Henriod		Justice	–
Francis Joseph Wing		Judge	–
Francis W. Sullivan		Justice	–
Francis Wayland Johnston		Justice	–
Frank C. Haymond		Justice	–
Frank D. Padgett		Justice	–
Frank E. Schwelb		Judge	–
Frank H. Hall		Justice	–
Frank K. Dunn		Justice	–
Franklin Cleckley		Justice	–
Franklin S. Billings Jr.		Justice	–
Fred Tarbell Field		Justice	–
Frederick S. Chung		Judge	–
Frederick W. Brune IV		Justice	–
Frenande R.V. Duffly		Justice	–
George Elijah Hinman		Justice	–
George Hanks		Justice	–
George K. Cracraft Jr.		Judge	–
Gerald F. Schroeder		Justice	–
Gilbert Bettman		Justice	–
Harold C. Marden		Justice	–
Harold H. Murchie		Justice	–
Harold P. Williams		Justice	–
Harry C. Martin		Justice	–
Herbert P. Wilkins		Justice	–
Herbert S. MacDonald		Justice	–
Howard M. Kirshbaum		Justice	–
Howard M. Kirshbaum		Judge	–
Hugh B. Baker		Justice	–
Hugh Brown Campbell Jr.		Judge	–
Hugh Richard Jones		Judge	–
I Beverly Lake Sr.		Justice	–
James A. Emmert		Justice	–
James L. Robertson		Justice	–
James M. Johnson		Justice	–
James Milkey		Justice	–
James P. Hart		Justice	–
James T. Brand		Justice	–
Jay Andrew Rabinowitz		Justice	–
Jean E. Dubofsky		Justice	–
Jennifer E. Niemann		U.S. Bankruptcy Judge	–
John C. Eldridge		Justice	–
John E. Allen		Judge	–
John E. Wallace Jr.		Justice	–
John H. Bayly Jr.		Judge	–
John M. Ferren		Judge	–
John O. Bailey		Justice	–
John P. Cotter		Justice	–
John Patrick Hartigan		Judge	–
John S.W. Lim		Judge	–
John Samuel Sherburne		Judge	–
John Spalding		Justice	–
Joseph Robert Weisberger		Justice	–
Judith Cathy Arnold Cowin		Justice	–
Keith R. Blackwell		Justice	–
Kenneth B. Keating		Judge	–
Kingsley A. Taft		Justice	–
Leo Parskey		Justice	–
Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr.		Justice	–
Lisa White Hardwick		Judge	–
Louis L. Manderino		Justice	–
Mark A. Sullivan		Justice	–
Mark E. Recktenwald		Justice	–
Marvin F. Burt		Justice	–
Marvin F. Burt		Justice	–
Mary J. Mullarkey		Justice	–
Masaji Marumoto		Justice	–
Mathew Tobriner		Justice	–
Matthew B. Durrant		Chief Justice	–
Melencio Red Recana	Public Administration	Presiding Judge	–
Michael E. Raiden		Judge	–
Miguel T. Espinoza		Judge	–
Nathan L. Jacobs		Justice	–
Nathaniel Tompkins		Justice	–
Neil L. Lynch		Justice	–
Norman R. Hays		Justice	–
Oliver Winslow Branch		Justice	–
Pamela B. Minzner		Justice	–
Patricio M. Serna		Justice	–
Paul C. Gartzke		Judge	–
Paul Cashman Reardon		Justice	–
Paul D. Mathias		Judge	–
Paul Grattan Kirk Sr.		Justice	–
Ralph D. Gants		Justice	–
Rashida A. Adams		Judge	–
Raymond Dean Jones		Judge	–
Raymond Sanger Wilkins		Justice	–
Reuben Oppenheimer		Justice	–
Richard Amni Cutter		Justice	–
Richard B. Klein		Judge	–
Robert B. Williamson		Justice	–
Robert Braucher		Justice	–
Robert G. Flanders Jr.		Justice	–
Robert J. Cordy		Justice	–
Robert L. Black		Judge	–
Robert M. Bell		Justice	–
Robert N. McDonald		Justice	–
Robert Nathan Wilentz		Justice	–
Robert P. Young Jr.		Justice	–
Robert T. Benton II		Judge	–
Robert W. Larrow		Justice	–
Ruth Abrams		Justice	–
S. Bernard Goodwyn		Senior Justice	–
Samuel H. Blackmer		Justice	–
Samuel James Ervin IV		Judge	–
Samuel James Ervin Jr.		Justice	–
Samuel W. Collins Jr.		Justice	–
Schuyler W. Jackson		Justice	–
Scott A. Brister		Justice	–
Shearjashub Bourne		Justice	–
Sherilyn P. Garnett		Judge	–
Sherman D. Horton Jr.		Justice	–
Sherman R. Moulton		Justice	–
Sidney St. Felix Thaxter		Justice	–
Stanley Elroy Qua		Justice	–
Stuart Rabner		Chief Justice	–
Suidney W. Wernick		Justice	–
Susan S. Beck		Justice	–
Sydney Hanlon		Justice	–
Sydnor Thompson		Judge	–
Theodore R. Boehm		Judge	–
Thomas Joseph Burke		Justice	–
Thomas Joseph Paolino		Justice	–
Thomas Littlefield Marble		Justice	–
Thomas R. Phillips		Justice	–
Thomas W. Pomeroy		Justice	–
Timothy Brown		Justice	–
Tony Leroy Richardson		Judge	–
Treat Clark Hull		Justice	–
Vincent L. McKusick		Justice	–
W. Michael Gillette		Justice	–
Walter Baker		Justice	–
Walter Emanuel Treanor		Justice	–
Warren W. Matthews Jr.		Justice	–
Wilhelmina Wright		Justice	–
William B. Brown		Justice	–
William H. Adkins II		Justice	–
William J. Skow		Judge	–
William L. Henderson		Justice	–
William R. Johnson		Justice	–
William Washburn Moss		Justice	–
Worrall Fredrick Mountain		Justice	–
Xavier Rodriguez		Justice	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-09-30. Verify against the primary source before relying.